00:00So these are a network of tunnels that were built in the 1940s and then expanded the 1950s.
00:27Basically the deep level shelter to protect British citizens against the bombing of what we know as the London Blitz.
01:28If you notice we've got a wall around the tunnels, etc.
01:46Can you turn the light on?
01:49Our main aim is to respect and restore these tunnels and bring them back to life for what they represent for Britain.
01:58So there were 43,000 people that died during that time, so it's a memorial, a story for those people.
02:03But given the vast space we've got here, they're over a mile long, we can certainly reactivate the deepest licensed bar,
02:10which would be the deepest licensed bar in a city, and we can open up as an arts and culture section.
02:16So it's a very large space for up to 3 million people a year.
02:46Ian Fleming would have been in these tunnels in early 1944, leading up to D-Day,
02:56and so along with the Special Operations Executive, which was a branch of MI6 which was in these tunnels,
03:02therefore Ian Fleming was in these tunnels associated with Special Operations Executive, or the Special Operations Executive,
03:09and that inspired him to create Kew Branch from James Bond.
03:12So this truly is the location of Kew Branch from James Bond.
03:15I think it's a large, well, it would certainly be the last major,
03:20I think it's a large, well, it would certainly be the last major,
03:25I think it's a large, well, it would certainly be the last major,
03:28I think it's a large, well, it would certainly be the last major,
03:31I think it's a large, well, it would certainly be the last major,
03:34I think it's a large, well, it would certainly be the last major,
03:37I think it's a large, well, it would certainly be the last major,
03:41I think it's a large, well, it would certainly be the last major,
03:45large scale, history and heritage tourist attraction that can ever be opened in London.
03:49And we know the London Eye, which was highly successful and very well managed,
03:53opened at the end of 1999.
03:56Nothing really new of this scale has opened since then,
03:59so we hope, therefore, it's a benefit to London.
04:02So overall, overall, this is part of a historic experience,
04:06London's a fantastic city for tourism and I think and hope this adds to something that
04:25people come and see.
04:26If I was in London and I want to come and see the history of London, this is definitely
04:30part of that history.
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